‘Vancouver’: Worst music video ever? Or best?

What do you get when you combine cheesy songwriting, poor videography, a goofy singing performance and – yep – autotune?

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Internet comedy gold.

But I feel kinda bad laughing at “Vancouver,” a song and music video (embedded below), just starting to go viral, about our Canadian neighbor to the north. After all, as Shaw TV’s The Express reported, music teacher Ligia Oancea wrote the song out of her love for Van City.

“It’s about the beauty of Vancouver, and how proud I am that I live in this city,” she told the TV program, “and how happy everybody that lives in this city should be.”

However, like Rebecca Black’s now-famous “Friday” music video, Oancea’s “Vancouver” video is getting attention for unintended reasons. Oancea posted the video to YouTube on Feb. 7, 2010, but it only recently started gaining attention as Web-culture sites found it and pointed it out as funny. Today, it went Internet-mainstream when it was posted to Boing Boing.

“Ok, I live in Vancouver. And after seeing that video, I want to move,” one commenter wrote this afternoon. The person then quickly followed up: “Actually, it’s not all that bad, given the obvious shoestring budget, and the enthusiasm is palpable.”

Indeed … the song and video are, well, kinda funny. But I think it’s also kinda sweet.

“I always wanted to write a song about Vancouver,” Romania-born Oancea told The Express. “I think it’s such a gorgeous city it deserves a song, like other cities like New York, like San Francisco. And, you know, with the Olympics that was absolutely a perfect occasion to launch the song.”